August 13, 2018

It’s been over a year since Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications
Commission claimed that the agency’s comment filing system was
subjected to a cyberattack during the height of last year’s net
neutrality debate. But after waves of speculation from both the public
and Congress, the commission has finally come clean.

The idea that the crashing of the FCC commenting system was cause by “bots” never sat well with me. It seemed like an easy way for Chairman Ajit Pai to explain away the massive show of support in favor of keeping the Net Neutrality rules in place. It turns out that was exactly the case.